Cocktails with a Curator: Vase Japon
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2020
- In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” examine one of the Frick’s recent acquisitions, the Sèvres “Vase Japon,” with Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon. A unique interpretation of a Chinese (not Japanese) bronze vase from the Han Dynasty, the object represents the 18th-century influence of China on European porcelain design. This week’s program is paired with a Long Island Iced Tea.
To view this object in detail, please visit our website: collections.frick.org/objects...
Always enjoy your talk! Wonderful historical background interpretation. Thanks!😘
Deputy Director. Is that new? Congratulations and well deserved. You've helped enormously in promoting the Frick Collection to a worldwide audience!
I hope this doesn’t end when the lockdown is over. I look forward to Cocktails with a Curator every week!
such a wonderful series...... fascinating details of beautiful objects and works of art--- and the presentation is spot on! many thanks!
Thank you so much for this series, and for continued education and access to fine arts during these trying times. Every week, there is something new, and important, to learn.
If I'd had a Long Island Ice Tea, I would not have been able to follow all that history! Glad I settled on a pedestrian red wine. This wonderful exploration of international relations is so pertinent to us today. Thank you! Can't wait to see whether the Sèvres facilities are open for tours. Those ancient kilns!
If there can be a silver lining to these times - it is these episodes Friday and Wednesday. Because of these programs, I can’t wait to see the objects, paintings and sculptures in person either at the Frick Madison or eventually at the Frick since they now have a new and richer meaning.
A wonderful history lesson to go along with our porcelain lesson to go along with our art objects lesson !! As always, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. Until next week, Cheers !
Another wonderful lecture about an amazing object at the Frick. Thank you so much for doing these videos. It's the highlight of my week.
Terrific. And congratulations to Dr. Saloman on his new position at the Frick.
I savor every minute of every one of these lectures. Look forward to the next already. Thank you, thank you.
Dr Solomon, another fascinating lecture! How I enjoy them.... thank you
Who knew this little vase had so much to say? We need the help of a very knowledge curator to enlighten us. All the nonsense VTS of museum educators does not suffice. Wonderful. I enjoy your presentations on you tube from Canada. Bravo!
Wonderful, this video so informative and beautiful, I look forward to seeing this next time I visit the Frick
You make everything so interesting. I loved the back story you gave, a history of relations between France and China, somewhat surprisingly facilitated by the Jesuits.
... or maybe not so surprising
These are always informative! Thsnk you Dr. Solomon.
Thank you, it’s so interesting ! From France
Thank you for another slice of invaluable education! Elizabeth 🇨🇦
Thank you so much Boucher for me number one artist in the world. And the same Sevres porcelain too.
A porcelain museum you say! I know where I'm going when I get back to France!
Wonderful as usual! Thanks so much for these lectures
This was my favorite Cocktails with a Curator, so far. Porcelain, China, Louis XVI, and it is an exquisite piece. Inspired intro, too.
Always following your lessons, even on holiday. Thank you and see you next week.
Thank you -so interesting.
Cheers and thank you
Magnifique....
Thank you from the UK
I'd like to know the journey of this lovely piece. Did the Chinese honor it? Did they sell it to a collector? When? How did the Frick obtain it?
Informative as always and particularly impressed with the pronunciation of the Chinese terms particularly the proper use of 'the Qianlong Emperor' rather than the common mistake of 'the Emperor Qianlong' . since the Chinese term refer to the title of his reign. It is not his name since the Emperor's actual name was considered too sacred to be uttered by ordinary people.
Emperor Bob wouldn't have the same ring as Lasting Eminence Emperor.
Thanks l am not so much about this objects
I saw japanis better and chnies also.But you have made much efforts therefore l thank fot it.
I have a vase made by JPL France , and signed Frick , do you think it’s from Frick’s collection.
xavier! would you please help me? i have a pair of sevres my grandma brought in the 1950' from france, but a man told us once they are not authentic. where can i send photos to ask? tks!!
Wonderful exposition. Just one thing: if it was made for the Chinese Emperor, why call it 'Vase Japon' ? .....
I am a very old woman that will not leave anything after her, not even a trace. This is why I enjoy myself writting very short stories for some special persons that tuched my solitude. The lines below are for you and Aimée Ng.
"Once upon a time, in a Dutch city, named Delft, seven dwarfs were living. They had different jobs, like planting tulips, making lace, producing cheese, creating porcelain, painting girls with pearls, building cathedrals, and speculating at the stock exchange. They always woke up very early in the morning, and in the evening they ate herrings and drank beer... until one day when, coming home, they found in front of their house door the body of a beautiful young girl, with a pearl in her ear. They did not know who she was, nor what to do with the body, because even she seemed dead, she was barely breathing. They had looked at her and they all had fallen in a fraternal love with her. So they put her a a casket, made in glass, for they wanted to see her every day, twice a day, in the morning after breakfast and in the evening before the herring on the plate. Some of them, cheated the rule, and went outside to get a glimpse of her before and after the beer for a tranquil sleep.
In the beginning life continued peacefully and enjoyably, even though the little dwarfs did not know, and actually did not care, who the girl was, they care just about her beauty. They imagined that if she was the daughter of a king, emperor or czar, the head of an Amazonian tribe or the guru of Aborigine population, though they could not produce such a beauty, this is why the guru was listed last, her father would sent messengers to find her.
On Thanksgiving day, although Dutch tradition does not have such a celebration day, they decided to open to cover of the casket to do some cleaning. Ah, what an odor, what a OB, what a smell. “Put it back, immediately!”, said the tulip-planter. The speculator-at-the-stock-exchange called for a conference-call. The girl was not dead, so it was not the smell of the corpse. She had not being eating in a long time, so it was not the odor of excrement. It was true she hadn't have a shower in a long, long time, but she haven't practiced any sport during this time, consequently she did not sweat.
“Let's open the casket one more time and examine the odor.” said the cheese-producer. So they did. First on the list came the breath. What an halitosis! Many of her teeth were damaged. So they concluded the girl came from a country where there were no barbers, for, at that epoch, nobody knew what a dentist is. So, dwarfs continued to examine the girl's body. She haven't used a deodorant in her life and her armpits looked like the beards of Blue Beard himself and his twin brother. Going down her body with the examination, they scented an odor of fish coming for the girls private parts. It was undoubtedly fish, for they ate each evening one, a herring on a plate, so they knew. This was the conclusion of porcelain-creator, for he remembered the white paste he had been kneading every day for as long as he could remember. They got to the feet which necessitated masks. The lace-maker diagnosed the smell as being a mycosis.
They had to put back the cover, because the odor was not only beyond odor, it was an unbearable odor, I mean UO. The cathedral-builder offered to build a monument for the eternal burial place of the sleeping beauty, decorated with some tulips brought by the tulip-planter. As they were deciding what to do, the painter-of-girl- with-a-pearl-earring, asked them to postpone their project a day or two, or more, in order for him to make some sketches.
He ordered some new paint, some new brushes and wood on which to lay her portrait. Equipped with an easel, the brushes and the case of colors, he installed himself in front of the glass casket, only to discover the earring disappeared and the beauty was not beauty at all ; it was an old witch with a apple in her hand. Could have been Eve? He did not know. But for sure the pearl earring was stolen by some gypsies, established there at the same moment when the casket arrived at the dwarfs' house.
Finally, they buried the casket, but, at Halloween , during the tango of the dead, the corpses like to change sepulcher, so that nobody knows where one is buried.
Only at the end of times, when the Last Judgment will occur and dead will be resurrected, the dwarfs will find out who the girl was. For now, they are still looking for the pearl, that encapsulated her tears. "
Excuse my English, I know is nor perfect.
Great story!
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Another reminder of why there was a French Revolution. Taxes on the people but not the nobles. If he unbuttons one more button my heart is going to stop.
I'm not fond of rococo in design , art, or architecture so Sevres is not really my cup of tea. I do find the Vase Japon beautiful although I own that when I briefly glanced at thumbnail my first thought was Faberge since the pattern brought to mind guilloche enameling.
Cape Town :)
Too bad the palace was destroyed by drug runners.
Absolutely! but that was the point - destroy history. Best part is the truth, like cream, always rises to the surface to protect us all which is why we need to learn from history... and art!
long island ice tea is kind of a low life sweet drink that gets one very very drunk.
could be so but during probation it was like the all day lollipop